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Author Re: NYC LOCAL: Thursday 29 November 2007 UNIGROUP: Heow Eide-Goodman on Ruby on Rail
marc spitzer

2007-11-28, 7:13 pm

On 2007-11-28, Thomas F. Burdick <tburdick@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> One would hope this means that Heow is going to talk about Lisp as
> well, although that's far from clear from the post. Then again, when
> Pascal talked about his AOP stuff at the Munich Lisp Group, the
> audience was about 1/2 people advocating tiny language cores and
> static typing ... so, uh, if this Ruby group is as full of Rubyers
> (Rubans? Rubes?) as MUCLisp was full of Lispers ... it might make
> sense?


As far as I know it is a ruby with some rails thrown in. Since I am
on the board of unigroup and asked Heow to do this I think it is a
safe bet that it is not a lisp talk.

>
> Or maybe Kenny's right, the link is drinking. You have to be pretty
> drunk to think that Ruby is pretty much Smalltalk and thus pretty much
> a Lisp -- hey, like Python. Or something.


Generally there is not much, if any, after meeting drinking going on at
these things. We do provide dinner though and charge admission to cover
cost of food.


marc
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